inetpeer: lower false sharing effect
authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Thu, 9 Jun 2011 06:31:27 +0000 (23:31 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 9 Jun 2011 06:31:27 +0000 (23:31 -0700)
Profiles show false sharing in addr_compare() because refcnt/dtime
changes dirty the first inet_peer cache line, where are lying the keys
used at lookup time. If many cpus are calling inet_getpeer() and
inet_putpeer(), or need frag ids, addr_compare() is in 2nd position in
"perf top".

Before patch, my udpflood bench (16 threads) on my 2x4x2 machine :

             5784.00  9.7% csum_partial_copy_generic [kernel]
             3356.00  5.6% addr_compare              [kernel]
             2638.00  4.4% fib_table_lookup          [kernel]
             2625.00  4.4% ip_fragment               [kernel]
             1934.00  3.2% neigh_lookup              [kernel]
             1617.00  2.7% udp_sendmsg               [kernel]
             1608.00  2.7% __ip_route_output_key     [kernel]
             1480.00  2.5% __ip_append_data          [kernel]
             1396.00  2.3% kfree                     [kernel]
             1195.00  2.0% kmem_cache_free           [kernel]
             1157.00  1.9% inet_getpeer              [kernel]
             1121.00  1.9% neigh_resolve_output      [kernel]
             1012.00  1.7% dev_queue_xmit            [kernel]
# time ./udpflood.sh

real 0m44.511s
user 0m20.020s
sys 11m22.780s

# time ./udpflood.sh

real 0m44.099s
user 0m20.140s
sys 11m15.870s

After patch, no more addr_compare() in profiles :

             4171.00 10.7% csum_partial_copy_generic   [kernel]
             1787.00  4.6% fib_table_lookup            [kernel]
             1756.00  4.5% ip_fragment                 [kernel]
             1234.00  3.2% udp_sendmsg                 [kernel]
             1191.00  3.0% neigh_lookup                [kernel]
             1118.00  2.9% __ip_append_data            [kernel]
             1022.00  2.6% kfree                       [kernel]
              993.00  2.5% __ip_route_output_key       [kernel]
              841.00  2.2% neigh_resolve_output        [kernel]
              816.00  2.1% kmem_cache_free             [kernel]
              658.00  1.7% ia32_sysenter_target        [kernel]
              632.00  1.6% kmem_cache_alloc_node       [kernel]

# time ./udpflood.sh

real 0m41.587s
user 0m19.190s
sys 10m36.370s

# time ./udpflood.sh

real 0m41.486s
user 0m19.290s
sys 10m33.650s

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/net/inetpeer.h

index 1f0966f..39d1230 100644 (file)
@@ -32,12 +32,17 @@ struct inet_peer {
        struct inet_peer __rcu  *avl_left, *avl_right;
        struct inetpeer_addr    daddr;
        __u32                   avl_height;
-       __u32                   dtime;          /* the time of last use of not
-                                                * referenced entries */
-       atomic_t                refcnt;
+
+       u32                     metrics[RTAX_MAX];
+       u32                     rate_tokens;    /* rate limiting for ICMP */
+       unsigned long           rate_last;
+       unsigned long           pmtu_expires;
+       u32                     pmtu_orig;
+       u32                     pmtu_learned;
+       struct inetpeer_addr_base redirect_learned;
        /*
         * Once inet_peer is queued for deletion (refcnt == -1), following fields
-        * are not available: rid, ip_id_count, tcp_ts, tcp_ts_stamp, metrics
+        * are not available: rid, ip_id_count, tcp_ts, tcp_ts_stamp
         * We can share memory with rcu_head to help keep inet_peer small.
         */
        union {
@@ -46,17 +51,14 @@ struct inet_peer {
                        atomic_t                        ip_id_count;    /* IP ID for the next packet */
                        __u32                           tcp_ts;
                        __u32                           tcp_ts_stamp;
-                       u32                             metrics[RTAX_MAX];
-                       u32                             rate_tokens;    /* rate limiting for ICMP */
-                       unsigned long                   rate_last;
-                       unsigned long                   pmtu_expires;
-                       u32                             pmtu_orig;
-                       u32                             pmtu_learned;
-                       struct inetpeer_addr_base       redirect_learned;
                };
                struct rcu_head         rcu;
                struct inet_peer        *gc_next;
        };
+
+       /* following fields might be frequently dirtied */
+       __u32                   dtime;  /* the time of last use of not referenced entries */
+       atomic_t                refcnt;
 };
 
 void                   inet_initpeers(void) __init;